Review - Last See Unknown by J R Choice #lastseenunknown #jrchoice

MY REVIEW

As soon as I saw the cover with a child, and a title like Last Seen Unknown, I felt it would be a good fit. I love FBI thrillers, especially when the main character, Grace Powell, feels a personal connection.

My only complaint, I would love more ‘meat on the bone’, and I felt the author stumbled a time or two. Last Seen Unknown is a quick read, at only 180 pages, but every word was worth reading. The book moved at a fast pace, making it hard to stop and draw a breath…at least for the main character, Grace Powell. Her past comes back with a vengeance and she will stop at nothing to bring the kidnapper to justice.

Skylar is a character I loved to hate. She runs a news channel on Instagram and TikTok. It would be great, and maybe even helpful, if she wasn’t more interested in the numbers instead of how true her writings were. Definitely adds a touch of reality to the novella, considering we are seeing such things play out daily online.

It isn’t just a basement. It’s where innocence goes to die.

What a great sentence.

She can’t live like this. Waiting. Flinching.

To me, it’s time to go hunting. And she does.

I am voluntarily reviewing an ARC for Last Seen Unknown by J R Choice.

Animated Animals. Pictures, Images and Photos — 4 Stars

GOODREADS BLURB

She escaped him once. Now he’s taken a girl who looks just like her.

FBI Agent Grace Powell has spent her life trying to outrun the man who abducted her as a child.

But then six-year-old Ellie Marks disappears. Same age. Same features. Grace knows it’s not a coincidence.

He’s back.

As Grace races to find the girl, the lines between justice and obsession begin to blur.

Each clue pulls her deeper into the past she swore she buried.

And she starts to wonder if this is a trap to lure her back to him.

To stop him, Grace must face her darkest

That the man who once forced her to call him “Dad”…is executing a plan to make her his again.

Genre: Fiction, Kidnapping, Suspense, Thriller
183 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2025

ABOUT J R CHOICE (from Amazon)

Twisted plots, flawed heroes, and secrets that won’t stay buried.

J.R. Cloice writes gritty crime fiction with bite—twisted plots, sharp dialogue, and characters who bleed. Before turning to novels, Cloice managed Birdland, New York’s legendary jazz club, and later co-founded a luxury cosmetics brand, leading it for over 20 years.

Now, the only thing getting polished is the prose.

Addicted to noir, flawed heroes, and buried secrets, Cloice crafts stories where justice is messy, truth cuts deep, and nobody walks away clean. If you like fast-paced thrillers packed with suspense and emotional punch, you’re in the right place.